A few days ago, the Eastern Theater Command of our army organized a joint fire strike drill and combat readiness patrol in the sea and airspace surrounding Taiwan Island. Theater spokesperson Colonel Shi Yi said that this drill was in response to the current provocative behavior of the United States and Taiwan escalating collusion. He also stated that in order to resolutely defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity, the theater troops will take all necessary measures.
Obviously, combined with the words of Colonel Shi Yi, it can be seen that the mainland's action is a practical counterattack against the recent deepening of military collusion between the United States and Taiwan. It is using concrete actions to send a clear and strong warning signal to external intervention forces and "Taiwan independence" forces on the island.
Taiwan's "defense department" has paid close attention to the mainland's Taiwan Strait exercise. It said that it recorded 71 mainland military aircraft and 7 sub-military ships approaching the Taiwan Strait. Among them, 47 military aircraft flew over the so-called "central line of the strait" .
Chinese People's Liberation Army military aircraft inspect Taiwan
The reason why China will organize joint fire strike drills around Taiwan again is because the United States has made an unprecedented major provocation, seriously interfering in China's internal affairs and harming China's interests.
Based on the actual situation, the U.S. House and Senate and President Biden have recently successively passed and signed the "National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023", which contains a large number of negative provisions related to China and Taiwan. In response, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of National Defense, Taiwan Affairs Office and other departments have made solemn responses to the United States.
China has issued warnings and made representations to the United States one after another, demanding that the United States immediately stop its plot to "use Taiwan to contain China", stop blurring and hollowing out the "one China" principle, and not implement relevant negative provisions related to China.
U.S. President Biden
In addition, Zhu Fenglian, spokesperson of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, angrily criticized the United States for "passing a knife" to the "Taiwan independence" forces and creating cross-strait conflicts. Senior Colonel Tan Kefei, spokesperson of the Ministry of National Defense, also emphasized that the Chinese People's Liberation Army will stand ready to defend national unity and territorial integrity.
In addition to the above verbal warnings, China has also taken a series of practical actions to send a clear signal to "Taiwan independence elements" on the island and external intervention forces. Of course, this exercise in the eastern theater is also included.
Recently, the mainland has regularly dispatched military aircraft to patrol Taiwan. In the past few days, China and Russia have held joint military exercises in the East China Sea, which is only 300 kilometers away from Taiwan. The Liaoning ship has also appeared in the waters near the Ryukyu Islands. It can be found that although this series of actions is not entirely aimed at the situation in the Taiwan Strait, it has also formed a "circle Taiwan exercise" .
China-Russia joint maritime military exercise
Moreover, coupled with this theater exercise that clearly pointed to collusion between the United States and Taiwan, the actual actions taken by our military during this period were very resolute and very effective.
A series of military actions are enough to show China's firm determination to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity. It also shows that China's warning to the "Taiwan independence" forces on the island, as well as external intervention forces such as the United States and Japan, is not just a verbal warning, but countermeasures that "walk the talk."
However, despite China's resolute and powerful countermeasures, some external forces are still stubborn and unwilling to give up playing the "Taiwan card" against China. For example, the recent series of actions by the United States have very obvious targeting implications.
The United States plays the "Taiwan card" against China
You must know that due to the United States' consistent Cold War confrontational mentality and hegemonic ideology, China, which is constantly developing and gradually increasing its strength, is unilaterally regarded as an "imaginary enemy" by the United States. Therefore, the United States is particularly vigorous in suppressing and containing China's development, for fear that its hegemony will be "threatened."
Because of this, in the face of China's stern warning, the United States is very likely to still insist on going its own way and continue to adopt a "salami-slicing" strategy on the Taiwan issue in an attempt to realize its plot of "using Taiwan to contain China."
And it is obvious that if the United States does not stop its actions that harm China's interests, the actions of the "Taiwan independence" forces on the island and other external intervention forces will not stop either.
Tsai Ing-wen
As far as Japan is concerned, as a loyal follower of the United States and willing to be an "anti-China" pawn, it will naturally spare no effort to cooperate with the United States in containing China. Moreover, Japan's ambitions have become more and more expanded in recent years, and it has always had the delusion of realizing "national normalization." Therefore, it is obvious that Japan will not easily give up its provocation on the Taiwan issue.
However, the "Taiwan independence" elements on the island have a superstitious belief in the theory of the United States and Japan "protecting Taiwan" and ignore the huge gap in military strength between the two sides. They paranoidly believe that once changes occur in the Taiwan Strait, they can count on the United States and Japan to intervene in the Taiwan Strait. Little do they know that this is just self-deception.
However, external forces such as the United States and Japan, as well as "Taiwan independence elements" on the island, need to understand that our military's firm determination to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity cannot be underestimated by anyone. Any behavior that harms China's core interests will inevitably be decisively counterattacked by China. This Taiwan naval exercise has already demonstrated this.
Our military organized a joint fire strike drill near Taiwan Island
Therefore, no matter which party is trying to harm China's core interests, it is best to stop such wrong actions immediately. Otherwise, once serious tensions are caused in the Taiwan Strait, it will inevitably suffer serious consequences, and China will resolutely take all necessary measures to defend the unity of the motherland and territorial integrity.
